Resetting The Balance To Save Copyright (Part III)

Source: Techdirt

Clearly, not much has changed over the last twenty years in efforts to change public perceptions and behaviors. The Hollywood that can produce blockbuster movies somehow can't make a PSA that isn't a self-parody. I think the public can be ed ...
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Victoria Beckham shouldn't fear her daughter becoming a tomboy | Dawn Foster

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Victoria Beckham, according to Closer magazine this week, has enrolled her daughter in ballet lessons to temper the influence of Harper's three brothers, and lessen the likelihood of her becoming a tomboy. It's not something ...
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Games: The Gameological Society: The Guinness Records games editor on freefall Wii and measuring the world’s loudest burp

Source: The A.V. Club

We often use vague catchall words to describe careers in gaming: developer, designer, producer. But those words don’t tell much of a story. What’s Your Line? is an interview series designed to demystify the people who make their ...
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A century of laziness

Source: Daily Express

CENTRAL LOCKING (1914) Although the idea is nearly a century old, making sure every door of the car was locked was a fact of life for most of us well into the Seventies. SUPERMARKET (1916) The concept of the self-service grocer was pioneered by the Pigg ...
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You're Only Making Things Worse For Yourself (And Us Too), Media Industries (Part II)

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Source: Tom W. Bell (It is a persistent myth, by the way, that allowing "Steamboat Willie"—itself a parody of a Buster Keaton film—to enter the public domain would mean the end of protection for Mickey Mouse. While freely copying those early cartoons wou ...
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Flat-Pack Cardboard Box Turns any iPhone into a Scanner

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This simple piece of folding cardboard with magnets attached is actually much more useful than you might think. It’s called Scanbox, and it turns your smartphone into a portable scanner, photocopier and presentation tool. The Sca ...
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Why cupcakes are the new cocaine

Source: Calgary Herald

On a cold November night in Manhattan, stick-thin women queue outside a late-night bakery so they can buy boxes of cupcakes groaning with so much sugar that you get a head rush just looking at them. The Magnolia bakery in New York’s West Village kicked o ...
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Health Trust Donates Equipment for National Emergencies

Source: AllAfrica.com

The National Health Care Trust of Zimbabwe has donated equipment worth over US$50 000 to Government for national emergency operations. Speaking at the handover ceremony recently, Deputy Minister for Health and Child Welfare Dr Doug ...
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Not All Is Well

Source: Outlook India

“We consciously did not want to wear the pharmaceutical hat in the FMCG business" —Pankaj Patel Chairman and MD, Zydus Wellness Well-positioned niche products that led to robust growth have now started to lose steam Check out our list ...
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